Thursday, April 18, 2013

I apologize for the lack of process pictures. This was done at a whim. It took about 30 minutes, and when I looked at it, I thought, "I should have done a tutorial on it." Oh well. Let me tell you how it happened.

Kewpie loves nightgowns. I scaled one down for her way back here, and it's gotten too small for her. My mom donated a nightgown she had that she'd never worn.

I used the same method as I have in the t-shirt dress. That is, lay a shirt that fits, with the sleeves tucked in, on top of the nightgown with the shoulders matched together.

Trace the armholes and sides of the pattern t-shirt onto the nightgown until a few inches below the armholes.

Cut out what you've traced, angling out from the tracing until you've reached the edge of the nightgown.

Sew the sides back together.

To make a hem, I measured how long Kewpie wanted it to be, and cut the nightgown off a few inches above that. Then I used the original hem as a ruffle. I hate hemming knits, so I use the original hem as much as I can.

I was going to make sleeves the same as I did in the t-shirt dress, but then I remembered that this is a summer nightgown, and Kewpie gets hot easily. So I took the hem of the original sleeves and used them to make a ruffle around the armhole.

As a side note, it might be noticeable that I haven't posted much as of late. At the moment, life (baby and sickness) has taken over, and sewing was shoved into the back seat. But I've woken from sewing dreams lately and my mind is brimming with ideas of fun things to do. We'll see if real life will allow for those to become real.

Meanwhile, I'll post a few projects I didn't have time to post before, to appease my hunger to create again.